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Michael Schwirtz

Michael Schwirtz is a reporter with The New York Times. Since 2014 he has been a member of the metro desk’s investigative team, reporting about brutality and corruption in the New York State prison system and at Rikers Island in New York City. He has covered the New York City Police Department for the metro desk, and from 2006 to 2012 he was a correspondent with the Times Moscow bureau.